Spirituality: Flesh versus Spirit In Prayer

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Spirituality In Prayer

In last week's spirituality Blog, we learned:

"It was God's plan that by supplying you a flesh-body, you could express and carry out the goodness that is in the human spirit when it is subject to God.
" -- Min. D. A. Wynne

The process of expressing and carrying out the goodness of God in your human spirit is performed through PRAYER.


Since prayer is the means of God expressing Himself through you, it is critical that we become more spiritual than carnal, aka fleshly or sensual. Prayer that is fleshly cannot tap the heart or mind of God who looks into every human heart and sees the "real" situation.

Flesh only permits us to see the outward circumstances about a person, their situation and their need. Going before God to ask His intervention when you don't even know what you are talking about is arrogant and futile. Much earlier posts in this Spirituality Blog have already revealed to us that HUMILITY IS THE KEY with God. He can't stand pride haughtiness, arrogance and presumption and tells us that such a heart will get nothing from Him. Isaiah 66:1-2

Humility during prayer causes us to realize that "we don't know". It causes us to seek the heart and mind of God on the person's behalf rather than asking God, presumptiously, to do this or that, which we have already determined is the person's need. I have found that the best attitude to start in when speaking to God for others is -- "there, but for the grace of God, go I!"
Yes, you must humble any proud beliefs you have about your own self in order to be qualified by God to pray for someone else. Said who?


JESUS SAID:

Matthew Chapter 7

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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

You must realize that given the same pressures from the Evil one's powers operating on your weak human flesh, you will do anything that anyone else has done. That's right! Given the same evil powers and pressures, the serial killer on the evening news would have been you -- not them, except for the intervention of God through the intimate friendship that someone had with Him who interceeded in prayer on your behalf.


Also, in the attitude "there but for the grace of God..." is another realization. We must realize that what is in the heart of God as a person's problem is often not what appears to be the problem. Someone asked me to pray for another's healing. I told them that God's hand was not upon me at that time to do so. Almost a week passed when the Lord revealed to my heart that He could not heal the person, so don't pray that for them. Their problem was not believing God concerning His spiritual authorities set up in the earth. In other words, God wasn't permitting a spiritual authority to intervene, when the person didn't even subject himself or herself to God's spiritual authority.

For an example of this, read the testimony about Naaman in 2 Kings Chapter 5 -- Old Testament.


If you see yourself in this blog today, go to Christ and confess your pride, haughtiness, arrogance, presumption. Ask forgiveness. This will make you more spiritual in the sight of God (the only eyes that matter) and you will be on course to becoming the friend of God. He will wipe the slate clean and your prayers will finally start to get through with faster results!